European Food Safety Authority
Do pesticide residues on crops pose a hazard? Latest EU Food Safety Authority report says no
The latest report on pesticide residues in food in the European Union is now available, giving a snapshot of residue ...
Europe’s current GM crop rules only ‘partially applicable’ to CRISPR plants, EU Food Safety Authority finds
The European Commission requested the EFSA Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) to assess whether section 4 (hazard identification) and ...
EU’s only cultivated GM crop, insect-resistant Bt corn, poses no risk to humans or the environment, study finds
Following a request from the European Commission, the EFSA assessed the 2018 post‐market environmental monitoring (PMEM) report on the cultivation ...
GMO herbicide-tolerant canola poses no hazard to human health, EU food safety officials find
Following the submission of application EFSA‐GMO‐RX‐002 .... from Monsanto Company, the Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms of EFSA (GMO) was ...
European Food Safety Authority rebuffs activist criticism of its safety assessment of insect and herbicide resistant GMO crops
The Risk “Assessment of genetically engineered organisms in the EU and Switzerland” (RAGES) project (2016‐2019) evaluated the risk assessment of ...
GMO high oleic acid soy doesn’t raise health or environmental concerns, EU Food Safety Authority finds
Following the submission .... from Monsanto Company (hereafter referred to as ‘the applicant’), the Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms of ...
Cumulative pesticide exposure poses little risk to consumers, EU food safety officials find
Risks to consumers from the presence of pesticide residues in food are currently estimated substance by substance. However, a number ...
95.5% of Europe’s produce below legal pesticide limits, posing little risk to consumers, food safety officials say
EFSA has published its annual report on pesticide residues found in food in the European Union. The report is based ...
Bayer insect‐resistant, herbicide‐tolerant GMO corn poses no risk to human health or environment, EU food safety panel confirms
Following the submission of application EFSA‐GMO‐RX‐014 .... from Monsanto Company the Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms of the European Food ...
EU Food safety officials reject activist group Testbiotech’s challenge of glyphosate-tolerant GMO soy approval
Following a request of the European Commission, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) reviewed the scientific arguments raised by the ...
Herbicide-tolerant GMO soy ‘as safe as conventional counterpart’, confirms EU safety panel
In the present scientific opinion, the scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms of the European Food Safety Authority (hereafter referred ...
Monsanto’s GMO soybean as safe as conventional counterpart, EU Food Safety Authority confirms
Following the submission of application .... from Monsanto (hereafter referred to as ‘the applicant’), the Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms ...
GMO insect-resistant corn poses no risk to human health, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) risk assessment affirms
Following the submission of application .... from Bayer Agriculture BVBA, the EFSA Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO Panel) was ...
Biotech corn with multiple GMO traits poses no threat to human health, environment, EU study confirms
Following the submission of [an] application .... from Monsanto Company (referred to hereafter as the applicant), the Panel on Genetically ...
‘No safe exposure level’ for controversial pesticide chlorpyrifos, renewal unlikely, European officials conclude
The pesticide chlorpyrifos does not meet the criteria required by legislation for the renewal of its approval in the European ...
Monsanto’s GMO soybean ‘safe as conventional counterpart,’ EU expert panel confirms
Following the submission of [an] application .... from Monsanto (hereafter referred to as ‘the applicant’), the Panel on Genetically Modified ...
GMO Bt corn cultivation in EU poses no threat to ‘human, animal health or the environment,’ food safety officials confirm
Following a request from the European Commission, [The European Food Safety Authority] assessed the 2017 post‐market environmental monitoring (PMEM) report ...
Bt insect-resistant crops don’t cause allergies, European safety oversight organization reaffirms
Following a request from the European Commission, [the European Food Safety Authority] assessed the scientific publication by Santos‐Vigil et al ...
EU Food Safety Authority: Risk from pesticide residue on foods low, unlikely to pose health risk
[Editor's note: The following is from the EFSA's 2015 European Union report on pesticide residues in food, published April 11, ...
European Food Safety Authority says new GMO soybean ‘as safe as’ non-GMO variety
The Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms of the European Food Safety Authority (GMO Panel) previously assessed the two single events combined ...
European Food Safety Authority rejects WHO’s IARC conclusion that glyphosate is carcinogenic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. EFSA and the EU ...
European Food Safety Authority dismisses Seralini GMO rat food ‘contamination’ study
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a paper published ...
European Food Safety Authority rebukes France for prohibiting approval of Monsanto GM maize
On 25 March 2014, the European Commission requested the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to assess the supporting documentation submitted ...